Ex-Ukip candidate joins group fighting for white ‘independence’ in South Africa weeks after General Election

Posted by Marmite on July 1, 2015 · Comments Off on Ex-Ukip candidate joins group fighting for white ‘independence’ in South Africa weeks after General Election

Jack Sen has signed up to South Africa’s Front Nasionaal and claims ‘blacks and whites can’t live together’ in the ex-apartheid nation.

An ex-Ukip candidate at the General Election is now Britain’s spokesman for a far-right group demanding white ‘independence’ in South Africa.

Jack Sen faced public disgrace when Ukip suspended him days before the election for making alleged anti-semitic remarks to Labour MP Luciana Berger.

The 41-year-old – who polled 6,000 votes in West Lancashire despite the scandal – told the Jewish shadow minister she’d ‘send the £ to Poland/Israel’.

He later launched an attack on Ukip, captured on video, in which he claimed it was ‘in the pockets of Jewish special interest groups’.

Now, just weeks after his defeat, Mr Sen has joined up with South Africa’s Front Nasionaal and claims ‘blacks and whites cant live together’ in the country which abolished white supremacy two decades ago.

The Front Nasionaal’s policies aim to hand ‘independence’ and ‘self-determination’ to Afrikaners, the descendants of Dutch settlers, and people of ‘European descent’ who identify with them.

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A statement on the party’s website reveals Mr Sen will be trying to form alliances between it and European far-right groups – including the BNP, which he’s also joined.

He told Mirror Online: “Was apartheid better than what there is today? In some ways yes, in some ways no.”

Talking about the high crime rate he said: “We’re talking about women being raped every 10 minutes so one has to find a solution.

“It appears unfortunately in South Africa blacks and whites can’t live together. It’s just not working.”

South Africa spent nearly 50 years under apartheid, where black people were blocked from certain jobs, education and housing under white minority rule.

It took years of protests and sanctions before the system finally ended in the early 1990s, with Nelson Mandela becoming the country’s first fully democratically-elected President.